Talent Management Strategies at Amazon: A Detailed Report

This report delves into Amazon's talent management strategies, focusing on their impact on employee productivity and overall business success. The study begins with an introduction outlining the aims and objectives, followed by a literature review that explores the importance of talent management, various strategies, and common challenges. A detailed project management plan, including scope, time considerations, quality, budget, and deliverables, is presented. The report then outlines the work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart to visualize project timelines. The research methodology section explains the research type, approach, and philosophy, as well as data collection methods, including questionnaires and sampling techniques. The data analysis and interpretation section presents findings, followed by conclusions and recommendations to address challenges. The report also includes a reflection on the learning experience, performance reviews, and appendices containing questionnaires and project logbooks to provide a comprehensive overview of the research process and findings. The report aims to identify effective talent management strategies and their implementation within an organization, providing insights into challenges and offering recommendations for improvement.

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Table of Contents
TASK-A...........................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Aim & objectives....................................................................................................................1
P2 Project management plan.......................................................................................................3
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart...........................................................................4
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P4 Research methodology...........................................................................................................5
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P5 Data analysis and interpretation.............................................................................................8
P6 Conclusion and recommendations........................................................................................16
LO4................................................................................................................................................17
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................17
TASK-B.........................................................................................................................................18
Performance review...................................................................................................................18
TASK-C.........................................................................................................................................19
TASK-D.........................................................................................................................................20
REFERENCE................................................................................................................................21
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................23
Questionnaire.............................................................................................................................23
Project log book for week 1.......................................................................................................24
Week 2 Project log book............................................................................................................25
Project log book for week 3.......................................................................................................26
Week 4 Project log book............................................................................................................28
Project log book for week 5.......................................................................................................29
Week 6 Project log book............................................................................................................30
Project log book for week 7.......................................................................................................32
Week 8 Project log book............................................................................................................33
Week 9 Project log book............................................................................................................35

Project log book for week 10.....................................................................................................36

TASK-A
INTRODUCTION
Talent management is the scope of human resource process that is helpful in developing,
attracting, on boarding and retaining be high performance employees. Talent management aims
to improve the business performance through practises that makes employees more productive.
This report will cover study on Amazon Which is American multinational technology company
and having focus on ecommerce, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital streaming.
they are providing online shopping to the people and satisfying their needs and demand at their
home door.
The study will discuss on the importance of talent management strategies and how it is helpful
for the organisation to achieve success. main objectives of the study is too identify the talent
management strategies and implementation of strategies within organisation.
LO1
P1 Aim & objectives
Aim
To identify strategies of talent management for the improvement of productivity at the
workplace. Study of Amazon
Objectives
 To understand the concept of talent management
 To be evaluate Strategies of talent management to improve productivity of the
organisation.
 To identify challenges from the implementation of talent management practises at
workplace.
 To identify recommendation to overcome the challenge is from talent management
practises.
Research questions
1) Importance of talent management practises
2) Strategies related to the talent management for the improvement of productivity
3) Challenges from talent management
4) Ways to overcome from the talent management challenges
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Talent management importance
According to the author Prater, Kirytopoulos, and Ma., (2017) Talen management plays
important role For the organisation to improvement in their workplace planning. In a recent time
talent management practises are helping organisations to improve their profitability and they are
able to grow their businesses. some of the talent management practises like training and
development is helping employees to improve their skills and knowledge.
However, talent management practises can have some negative impact, it is necessary for the
human resource department of the organisation to have proper knowledge about implementation
of talent management practises because it requires high knowledge and time to be successfully.
Talent management strategies
There are various talent management strategies that are used by the organisation to achieve
success in their business. the talent management strategies can include development of
employees in their performance where they continuously monitor the performance of the
employees and provide training accordingly. on the other side training and development is also
part of their tenant management strategies that is help Time to motivate their employees and
bring more skilful implies because they get upper treated to develop.
However, strategies within the Talent management only work Of the company have proper
knowledge and understanding of talent management. without having knowledge and skills of
talent management strategies are waste. it is necessary for the person to develop understanding
about talent management strategies.
Talent management challenges
Implementation of talent management is not that easy becausr it can create various challenges for
the organisation in their implementation process. some of the common challenges that mostly
faced by the people from the talent management are- Lack of leadership is one of the challenge
that can affect the practises from the talent management (Livesey., 2017). It is necessary for the
leaders to have knowledge about current management. another challenge from the talent
management is the motivation employees. employees can be motivated due to the changes an
implementation of new strategies.
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P2 Project management plan
Project management Is the formal document that is helpful in defining the process and progress
of the project and activities that will be carried out by the project manager. this plan can include
the budget, scope, goals and deliverables to keep the project on that track.
Scope
project management scope refers to the total amount of work that must be done in order to
deliver a product, outcome are services with the specific features and functions that can include
everything that must go into the project as well as the success of project. the scope of this project
is higher because there are higher chances of getting the better outcomes of the research because
Amazon is already using the and management strategies so they can improve their strategy more
better.
Time
It is necessary for the project manager to consider time so they can deliver outcomes effectively
within the given time. to complete this project on talent management the project manager of this
report will require three months of time so they will able to achieve this access (Galli., 2018)
Quality
Quality in the project management is important because it provides the best possible outcomes
from this study and without having a better quality project cannot be successful. The project
manager should always ensure the best possible quality should be provided by them so they can
get better quality.
Budget
Budget is always important part of the project management where it is the first priority of the
project manager to develop a budget for their plan. To make accurate and estimated budget the
project manager develop budget according to the inflation becausr there are higher chances to get
things more costlier which means that they have to pay higher (Jiang, J.J., Klein and Fernandez.,
2018).
Deliverables
Deliverables are the outcomes of whole study an the main focus of this project is to collect the
best possible deliverables For the whole project. The expected deliverables from the talent
management project is too get strategies that can be used by the selected organisation to achieve
success.
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Communication
Communication in the project is essential becausr without having a communication project
cannot be successful because all the information will be not get performance of the employees
and provide training accordingly. on the other side training and development is also part of their
tenant management strategies that is help Time to motivate their employees and bring more
skilful implies because they get upper treated to develop.
risk and resources
Risk can take place anytime an it is necessary for the project manager to be aware of risk and
they should always identify the possible risk so they can mitigate it. similarly resource is also
important because it will be needed during the work (Shumaev, and et.al., 2018).
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart
WBS:
It is one of the major aspect and concept with respect to project management plan. As per
this concept the work concerning the entire project right from making of aims and objectives are
divided and presented in a hierarchical format (Burghate, 2018). This will lead to have
classification and dividation of work under the differ heads and sub heads. In simple terms WBS
is a structure that depicts the breaking of work and its presentation in under stable manner.
MSBP
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Gantt chart:
It refers to a chart that depict the related activities with respect to project and its
performance. Under this chart, activities are identified and presented along with time frame. This
means that from this chart not only activities but its approximate time frame will also be
analysed (Trojanowska and Dostatni, 2017).
LO2
P4 Research methodology
It refers to a process that include several steps which will lead to have a successful
accomplishment and performance of research. Research methodology has several steps which
depicts and lead the conduction of research in a defined manner. This is one of the essential
aspect of project management because it will lead to have a development of adequate framework
of research.
Research type:
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It refers to the type of research which is being carried out regarding the project. It is the
base on which entire research regarding the project is depend. It is generally of two types
including qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative research refers to that research in which there
is no use of any numerical data (Bansal, Smith and Vaara, 2018). Theories and non-numerical
data regarding the research is analysed. However, in case of quantitative research, numerical and
statistical data is used to carry out the research (Aspers and Corte, 2019). with respect to this
research qualitative mode is chosen so that the analysis of the concept of talent management will
be performed in-depth.
Research approach:
It refers to the plan and procedure which will be implemented in the research. it is usually
of two types including inductive and deductive. Inductive research refers to that research which
begin with research questions and accordingly data regarding the question and the research is
collected. After collecting data hypothesis and theories will be developed (Woiceshyn and
Daellenbach, 2018). While in case of deductive approach existing theories will be analysed
followed by formation of hypothesis. This will further guide data collection and analysis
(Azungah, 2018). In this research inductive research will be implemented so that qualitative data
will be analysed and justified adequately.
Research philosophy:
It generally includes belief of the researcher regarding the research. It can also be counted
as researcher perspective regarding the research. It is of two types: interpretivism and positivism.
Interpretivism refers to that philosophy in which researcher plays an important role in terms of
evaluating the facts and perspective. Here meaningfulness of the research is totally depend upon
the researcher and its interpretation (Ryan, 2018). On the other hand, positivism philosophy
works on the principle of scientific inquiry. This means that the researcher will work as per
finding and inquiry. There is no personal intervention. With respect this research, interpretivism
will be chosen so that the research regarding the concept will be justified and presented
adequately.
Data collection:
It is the process in which data related with the research will be collected by the
researcher. There are generally two sources and types of data i.e. primary and secondary.
Primary data refers to first hand and authenticated form of data. It is directly collected from
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source and hence counted as most valid and true form of data (Center, 2020). Secondary data is
that information which is gathered from secondary sources including books and journals and
other researcher findings. It is already researched data and hence readily available and less
costly. In this research a combination of both primary and secondary data will be inculcated so
that qualitative research of the project will be performed adequately and desired outcome will be
grabbed. It is also to be noted that, in order to collect primary data there are various modes
including interview, observation, questionnaire and various others. But regard to this research
questionnaire will be used wherein question regarding the concept of research will be asked from
respondents.
Sampling:
It is one of the important aspect with regard to research. Sample refers to a group of
people that shows and depicts the characteristics of entire population. It is one of the major
technique which save time and enable primary mode of research (Wu and et.al., 2017). it can be
performed by many manner but in case of this research a simple random sampling of 30
employees of the Amazon is included. Simple random sampling refers to that sampling in which
there are equal chances of selection of the respondent.
Data analysis:
As per this aspect the collected data regarding the research will be analysed and
interpreted its outcome. Without this task research will not be able to accomplish. It can be
performed by two modes including SPSS and thematic test. SPSS is generally used to analyse the
numerical data. However, thematic test is used to analyse the qualitative data. By making of
theme regarding the concept data of the research will be analysed. In this research thematic test
will be adopted so that qualitative data will be analysed and justified.
Ethics:
Ethics are the major and important element with respect to every research. This is
because implication of ethical consideration will lead to have raising of valid of the research.
Ethics are the moral values and principles that will lead to have better performance of research
(Resnik, 2018). In order to achieve and implement ethical consideration in this research, prior
permission of the respondent will be taken regarding the availing of data. Likewise, ethical forms
will also be filled by the respondent so that the research will be ethically valid and true. Also an
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option of withdrawal of consent is also enabled to respondents so that they will be not forcefully
participate in research and their ethics and moral values will not be hurt.
Reliability and validity:
It is very essential that the research must be reliable and valid so that the concerned
people including other researcher, companies and various other will be able to trust over the
research. in order to ensure reliability and validity only authenticated sources and authors views
are being inculcated in the research. Also, data is collected only from reputed websites and only
copyright data is being used in the research in order to make it more valid and reliable. Also to
ensure more reliability and validity primary research is also used along with secondary research
so that authenticity of data will be maintained.
LO3
P5 Data analysis and interpretation
It is an important aspect with respect to every research. Under this data regarding the
research is collected and analysed with the drawing of interpretation. Data analysis is an
important aspect because it will enable the researcher to have knowledge and justification
regarding the entire research.
Theme 1: Talent management initiative
Q. 1. Do you follow any talent management initiative in workplace?
Option Response
a) Yes
b) No
25
5
Total 30
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a) Yes b) No Total
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Q. 1. Do you follow any talent
management initiative in workplace?
Interpretation:
As per the above table and graph it is interpreted that the company usually adopt the
talent management practices in its workplace. As out of a sample of 30 employees, majority of
employees including 25 say yes while 5 said no. These findings clearly show that eth company
take adequate talent management initiatives in the workplace with reference to attraction and
management of employees along with their retention in the company.
Theme 2: Equal distribution of salary:
Q. 2. Do you make fair and equal distribution of salary among employees?
Option Response
a) Yes
b) No
22
8
Total 30
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